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Overvoltage protected socket

EP 1014512 B1 · Applicant: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG

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  • Filed December 22, 1999 and granted May 28, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 22, 2019.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by June 22, 2025.
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FiledDecember 22, 1999
PublishedJune 28, 2000
GrantedMay 28, 2003
Term endedDecember 22, 2019
Application numberEP 99125691
Classification (CPC)H01R13/6666 +2 more

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